Turtle World

In the vacuum of space, something huge slowly approaches at the top of the frame. It is a sea turtle the size of a planet. It exhales and an atmosphere fills the scene. Lightning flashes in the clouds and rain falls. Trees sprout from the turtle's enormous back and become large forests. The turtle floats lazily in the sky, tilting its head back to eat leaves from the forest trees.

In the forest, monkeys hop around, eat tropical fruits and rest on tree branches.

A monkey snores happily, its dangling tail a tempting target for the younger ones who swing from tree to tree. Life is good. But is it good enough? The rain falls and the drenched monkeys huddle together, shivering. Then a clever monkey builds a nest with a roof of palm leaves. Soon other monkeys imitate it and then try to improve their constructions. As the monkeys progress, bigger and bigger houses are built throughout the forest. Trees are cut down for timber, while the monkey metropolis grows ever larger.

Worker monkeys break off pieces of the turtle's shell to make tools and roof tiles. Trams carry the monkey commuters to work in the monkey city.

The turtle bends its head back again to eat, but there are no more trees on its back. Now the animal is thin and emaciated. Its great legs stop and the turtle begins to fall. But below is only a vast ocean...